Are there any difference between McCain and Obama? Of course I do see that one is younger than the other, but besides that? I have read the statements from both parties and so far I do not see much difference between them. I am aware that some of the differences, although in the big run, I consider minor, to others are matter of life and death, especially the opinion on abortion, but besides that then, are there any significant differences? Will USA be better off with any of them, and will any of them prove any improvement to G. W. Bush…? And the most intriguing question is, will one of them be governing the EU?
I, as well as very many others I have talked with, do not understand why we in Europe have been following so closely the internal party election of presidential candidates in the USA. What does that concern the people of Europe, or the rest of the world for that matter? Are we to understand that the new president of USA, elected only by citizens of the USA, will be the president to govern us all?
Is EU in its surrender to NATO and the engulfing by that organisation, becoming a part of the USA… if so I do understand the massive news coverage of what I thought was internal affairs with some foreign political parties… but it seems that it concerns us very much, or at least all newspapers and news channels seem to bring the information to us in such overwhelming measures, that we almost feel that this is our turn to choose between the candidates. Even the pop star like visit to Berlin proved that. Are we becoming a part of USA? And why has nobody told us so, as I would like that to be a matter up for a referendum by the people of Europe.
Although we may get used to the fact that a referendum is a bad thing, as, of course, our leaders knows things much better than us, all what we should think and like. The Irish “no” to the Lisbon treaty does not seem to have had any real significance to the continuously implementation of the treaty. Some has suggested to hold another referendum, like previously in Denmark, where they just kept going until the wanted outcome was given. That is the wanted outcome from the government, and not from the people.
The Lisbon treaty has been ratified in most European countries without even asking their people, and that with a significant lesser press coverage than a local meeting of the Democratic Party somewhere in the USA. Was the internal debate of an American political party more important than our own future government? Or perhaps the press has grasped that the European future government was represented at the meeting of an American political party, and that the Lisbon treaty was totally meaningless to us, as we would not have any say in that anyway.
Are we still a democracy in EU? Or what is happening…?
